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...have 5,000 years of history and that we invented paper and movable type and gunpowder? The unease manifested itself in sartorial diktats, too. Lest visitors think that China was somehow not sophisticated enough to merit hosting the world's premier sporting spectacle, local residents were admonished not to wear more than three contrasting hues at the same time. At a time of national glory, it just wouldn't do to have colors clash...
...perhaps the most striking benediction she delivered to her former foe was to hand him - maybe as a loan or maybe forever - the mantle of 1990s peace and prosperity that she had hoped to wear as her own. "As I recall, we did it before with President Clinton and the Democrats," she said to a new round of cheers. "And President Obama and the Democrats will do it again...
...Inside the convention hall on Monday afternoon, there was less anger but plenty of swirling emotion. Clinton supporter and Florida delegate Cathy Bartolotti, a former Tampa city worker, had bought an Obama T shirt and button but wasn't able to wear the items yet. "By Thursday, maybe I'll put it on," she said. "We have to come together, but I want to hold out a little more. Just tomorrow. Give...
...networks laid out. The areas that couldn't be prettified in time were hidden behind Olympic billboards that would have made Grigori Potemkin proud. Lest visitors think that China was somehow not sophisticated enough to merit hosting the world's premier sporting spectacle, local residents were admonished not to wear more than three contrasting hues at the same time. At a time of national glory, it just wouldn't do to have clashing colors...
...includes analysis of the pubic bones that lie just under the navel along with some vertebral bones, both sets of which start out rough in youngsters but smooth out over time; images of the femur, or thigh bone, which becomes thinner and loses bone mineral over time; dental wear; and closure of the cranium. However, it's unlikely that IOC or FIG officials will go so far as to impose these types of biological tests on the Chinese gymnasts - especially since none of these methods can definitively pinpoint any of their ages as either...